Excel manipulation including data reading/writing, worksheet management, formatting, charts, and pivot table
Excel mcp server lets Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients work with Excel directly. Excel manipulation including data reading/writing, worksheet management, formatting, charts, and pivot table.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets you manipulate Excel files without needing Microsoft Excel installed. Create, read, and modify Excel workbooks with your AI agent.
The server is distributed via PyPI as excel-mcp-server, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.
The server reads one environment variable: EXCEL_FILES_PATH. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.
Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. Excel sits in that group. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"excel": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["excel-mcp-server", "stdio"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| EXCEL_FILES_PATH | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
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